As with practically all rhetorical devices, William Shakespeare liked using it (âShe being none of your flesh and blood, your flesh and blood has not offended the kingâ), but you can thank George Lucas for what is now probably the best-known example: âFear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate.
isolationism. the policy or doctrine directed toward the isolation of a country from the affairs of other nations by a deliberate abstention from political, military, and economic agreements. â isolationist, n.
Appeasement, Foreign policy of pacifying an aggrieved nation through negotiation in order to prevent war. The prime example is Britainâs policy toward Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Neville Chamberlain sought to accommodate Italyâs invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 and took no action when Germany absorbed Austria in 1938.